[Ace Oliveira]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Even though the Russians are more ruthless than their Western counterparts (as evidenced by case studies from the Hungarian Uprising to the recent Chechen Wars), I don't think they'd bomb entire towns and cities.

All invading armies recognize that they need the cooperation of the local civilian population, unless they're willing to resort to plain genocide. Bombing cities with intent to kill lots of civilians is not SOP nowadays, at least not for major states like Russia (if you're talking Third World hellholes like Sudan, that's another story, but those are the kinds of countries that could never invade the U.S. even if they wanted to, so it's a moot point).



Training, again, has nothing to do with weapons in guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla tactics are pretty simple - hit-and-run attacks, IEDs, things that wear the enemy down. The big challenge is endurance of extremely bad circumstances. Guerrillas win when they outlast the conventional forces by denying them victory, so that the enemy is forced to cut their losses. Poor people who have lived in squalor (or awful terrain) can take this kind of warfare. Americans, on the other hand, can't..

You are completely, 100% right about training. There is still the problem with military vehicles, though. Also, what is SOP?